bluGill

on life support thay haven’t pulled the plug yet but it is coming. They are not updating anything not urgent and so new hardware support is dead as are jails to do useful things. I’m probably moving to xigmanas in the near future.

I know, I like BSD. However because core isn’t a supported version of FreeBSD I cannot update the other things I run on my NAS. I’m more worried about an attack on those out of date services than I am about the few issues that have been fixed

only the most basic security. It is out of date according to the pkg system and so jails cannot be updated-

At least you get updates. I’m running TruNAS core which isn’t updated anymore, and I have some jails doing things so I can’t migrate to scale easially.

The good news is this still works despite no updates it does everything it used to. There is almost zero reason to update any working NAS if it is behind a firewall.

The bad news is those jails are doing useful things and because I’m out of date I can’t update what is in them. Some of those services have new versions that add new features that I really really want.

I have ordered (should arrive tomorrow) a N100 which I’m going to manually migrate the useful services to one at a time. Once that is doing I’ll probably switch to XigmaNAS so I can stick with FreeBSD. (I’ve always preferred FreeBSD). That will leave my NAS as just file storage for a while, though depending on how I like XigmaNAS I might or might not run services on that.

Odds are strongly against a 2 drive failure at your scale, though it does happen. I set my NAS up about 8 years ago, with 6 drives with raid-6 (well zfs’s version) and in that time two drives have failed years apart. When you get two hundreds of drives total in your operation you will see a dual drive failure.

Though you still really should have backups of everything you care about. Even though odds are in your favor someone reading this will lose data in their life on their NAS system.

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/store/ is what I’m looking a for my next keyboard. I am typing this on a Keychron which I will agree with others is a great keyboard option for somewhat cheap.

For general computer stuff B&H. Though if I knew of a local store near me I’d be sure to support them.

Only for the moment. Spammers have already found us, but so far in small numbers. All the other bad parts of social media are already here too, just so far not in large amounts and so you can find useful content. But those who gain from the garbage are coming and decentralization doesn’t help.

If you must be on those platforms (because face it, that is where grandma is) don’t doom scroll. I block all from the creator of shared memes on facebook - then when I block two I use that as a sign I’m done for the day. You should follow similar rules - make it clear that you want social media for social purposes and the memes, information (which is likely false or exaggerated), and everything else is not welcome to you. Alone you and I are nothing, but together we start to become a statistics that they will notice. Thus my plea that you follow similar rules as me in blocking the non-social parts and not doom scrolling - if there are enough of us they will be forced to make their platform more useful to keep us for one more ad.

So why are we talking - nothing gives me any indication you are in the same community as me (odds are strongly against it), so nothing is being organized. The world needs more ways to organize communities not large groups who don’t have a small communities in common to do something about.

Just like kde 4.0 and wayland were not marketed to consumers and yet consumers used them anyway and then decided latter releases marketed to consumers must also be bad.

That Is one reason why I choose to join a kbin instance back in the day. Many lemmy devs are scummy people who support this.

i try to block all .ml groups so I don’t engage them. You should too.